Monday Motivation: Head-hopping should be forbidden
Why is the point of view you choose to write in so critical to the effects you wish to create in your narrative? The writer’s job, as I’ve said before, […]
Writing Secrets: Go on, leap – we’ll leap with you
We don’t need to follow your characters into the bathroom to brush their teeth, unless something significant happens there. Likewise, we don’t need to know every step they take to […]
Monday Motivation: Make enemies, win wars
I’m going to get to my subject today in a roundabout way, if you don’t mind. Sometimes the route you take to your destination is as interesting as the destination. […]
Writing coaching programme – with an added bonus
Have you ever wished for a gentle guide who prods you to write each day? Someone who coaches you on best practice? Who is on your side? That’s what we’re […]
Writing Secrets: Remember the flow
Memoir writers often start out with less trepidation than their fiction-scribbling peers. They already know the story, right? They’re familiar with the characters, and they can picture the scenes [...]
Monday Motivation: What story’s really all about
I continue to think of parallels between life and the imaginary worlds of all our fictions. There have to be these equivalences, because otherwise fiction wouldn’t resonate with us; we […]
April newsletter: A little writing help from your friends
Writing is a solitary process, which means it can leave you feeling lost and not a little lonely. In last month’s newsletter, we set out to help you to help […]
Writing Secrets: We are what we notice
I read a manuscript recently in which the protagonist gazed out at the sun-filled park. Okay, fair enough, perhaps it gives us some sense of his world … but not […]
February/March writing challenge results
Congratulations to everyone who entered our February/March writing challenge . It wasn’t an easy one, because it relied so heavily on subtext – and all of you engaged with it […]
Enter our challenge and stand a chance to win a writing course
All About Writing’s latest writing challenge offers the winner a place on our creative writing Coaching Programme: Focus on scenes. It’s a fourteen step programme with your own personal [...]
Monday Motivation: Politicians should learn a thing or two from writers
The skills and insights of creative writing have more applications in the “real” world than we sometimes realise. Politics, for instance, consists largely of opposing narratives. Different [...]
Writing Secrets: Don’t write about the war
I am approached all the time by people who tell me they’re keen to write a book, and when I ask what it’s about, they say … the Indian uprising […]
